Starseed Pilgrim

hi! thanks everyone here for liking [Starseed Pilgrim], or maybe just considering playing it, or maybe you are coming to this forum to badmouth it, who knows

anyway, [Starseed Pilgrim] isn't important right now. i and three of my friends joined to form the Gloam Collective a year ago and we've been working on a big, four-person project. it's a thoughtful competitive videogame with online multiplayer so you can fight faraway friends.

you can also fight nearby friends. also people who are not your friends, i guess.

the game is called Bravery Network. it's still in progress & you can't fight your friends yet, but you can look at art, read some words, and give us your email address.

I’ve been meaning to write about A Sword Game since laaaaaaast yeaaaaaar>. Or rather, the tail-end of last year, which was like a couple weeks ago. But then the holidays happened, my hands temporarily fell off (as they do every year), and well, here we are. Anyway, ASG is a brilliant little Ludum Dare entry from Starseed Pilgrim dev Droqen. It’s about swords, as many games are, but there’s a twist: you’re laughably incompetent. Good luck keeping ahold of your sword, much less skewering the armies of darkness like so many evil sausages. Baddies, walls, grates – everything can and will send your precious implement clanging away end-over-end. ASG is occasionally frustrating, but mostly it’s just hilarious.

I didn’t know a great deal about Starseed Pilgrim until its Steam release a couple of days ago. I thought it was a puzzle game. I knew it had bemused John. I was vaguely aware that clever people were urging others to play it and to talk about it. For the last seventy two hours it has dominated my waking thoughts and infiltrated my dreams. It’s a challenging, perplexing game set in a strange space that is illuminated by frequent sparks of genius.>

Starseed Pilgrim is a game about tending a symphonic garden, exploring space, and embracing fate. You are a gardener, tending to empty noise and empty space to fill them both with colour. You are a refugee, building your own world away from the spreading darkness.

"Advice for playing Starseed Pilgrim: As long as you still have questions, continue." Jonathan Blow